On 17 Dec 2005 13:38:56 -0800, david@smooth1.co.uk <david@smooth1.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Errm.. What if people do not have perl installed?
>
> With C I can provide binaries that have no external dependencies.
>
> I just want to validate ontlitcp or onsoctcp connections with this
> tool.

Your choice - but most machines outside the Windows world have Perl as
standard (which platform doesn't?), and Activestate makes it easy to
install Perl on Windows.

I think it will be easier to port the Perl code to other platforms
than the C code. That's only a semi-informed opinion, but if you are
determined to roll-your-own C code, then look at whether the Apache
Portability Runtime (APR) library would help you.

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